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Issue: Crime Patrol #16
Publication Date: February 1950
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Issues: #16 of 10 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Publisher: FlagEC
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: I. C. Publishing Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 10/14/1949
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code
Content Items: 7 (6 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On sale date as listed in the Catalog of Copyright Entries, Periodicals, July-December 1949, page 181, registration number B213569.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color cover and interior
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: Was Ongoing Series
Format Notes:  
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: crime, horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #10 published January 2001
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Corpse in the Crematorium

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ? (see notes)
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Character(s): Al Gregory (an artist); Jane Walton (Al's fiance)
First Line: A living man, being carried into the great coke furnace of a modern crematorium...
Synopsis: A man subject to cataleptic fits is brought to a crematorium while his wife-to-be searches frantically for him. She fails to find him before he is scheduled for cremation, but what saves him is that the attendant notices beads of sweat forming on his brow before the gaping maw of the blast furnace.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime SuspenStories #2 published December 1950
as The Corpse in the Crematorium [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Suspenstories #2 published February 1993
as The Corpse in the Crematorium [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #10 published January 2001
as The Corpse in the Crematorium [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Story foreshadows a 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV episode titled "Breakdown", wherein Joseph Cotten plays a paralyzed man lying on a morgue slab mistaken for a dead body (episode directed by Hitchcock).

Thommy Burns, in Fantagraphics' October 2019 volume, "The Woman Who Loved Life and Other Stories", reports that the script is by Craig, not Feldstein. Placed a ? by Feldstein's name and Craig's name added.

Colors were previously attributed to Marie Severin, but it is unlikely that Severin had begun coloring at EC when this issue was colored (Cassell 2012, 33–34 and 171).
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Reference:

Cassell, Dewey, with Aaron Sultan. 2012. Marie Severin: The Mirthful Mistress of Comics. Raleigh: TwoMorrows Publishing.
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Trapped in the Tomb

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: Alone in an airless tomb that had lain buried for forty centuries...
Synopsis: An explorer plots to kill another explorer by sealing him in an Egyptian tomb. His love interest foils the plot by fighting and scratching the bad guy for a note written in the missing man's handwriting. A third explorer realizes the fink is up to no good when he notices the facial scratches but the would-be murderer denies having seen the girl. The third explorer follows the evildoer and overpowers him when he attempts to toss the subdued girl over a cliff and then they rescue the man trapped in the tomb, who it turns out, is still just barely alive.
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #10 published January 2001
as Trapped in the Tomb [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
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A Bottle of Murder!

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: The story can be told, now.
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #10 published January 2001
as A Bottle of Murder! [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Text story with illustration.
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The Graveyard Feet

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: The feet came from the grave...
Synopsis: A mad doctor cuts off the body parts of his victims in order to experiment with transplants. One of the recipients turns out to be a reporter who finds that the feet have a will of their own and know how to kickbox. Eventually, they lead him back to the doctor and once the cell doors of his intended victims are opened, they beat the doctor to death. The reporter's feet go back to being well-behaved now that their previous owner has been avenged.
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #10 published January 2001
as The Graveyard Feet [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 6
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Voodoo Vendetta

Text Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
First Line: They tell strange tales in the hills of Haiti...
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In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #10 published January 2001
as Voodoo Vendetta [Text Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Spectre in the Castle

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: horror
Feature(s): The Crypt of Terror!
Character(s): The Crypt Keeper (host)
First Line: Welcome, dear reader!
Synopsis: A man inherits an estate on the condition that he survive a few nights in it since it is supposedly haunted by a ghost that has been known to kill a relative at times. He accepts the risk, and after he arrives odd things begin to happen, but it turns out not to have anything to do with the supernatural, but a greedy probate lawyer attempting to do away with him to gain control of the estate.
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagCrime Patrol #10 published January 2001
as The Spectre in the Castle! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8

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